Conventional wisdom tells us that people don’t go to the movies on Super Bowl weekend. Of course, that wisdom has been tested by the big debuts of Hannah Montana: The Best of Both Worlds, Taken and Dear John, in recent years. In 2013, Warm Bodies should become the latest title to buck Super Bowl convention. The teen-zombie romance earned an estimated $8.1 million from 3,009 locations on Friday, including $600,000 from its midnight premieres. That puts the film on track for a three-day total of $20 million instead of the low-to-mid teens that had been projected. Projections also failed to gauge the future of the frame’s second wide release: Bullet to the Head. The Sylvester Stallone action movie was expected to earn between $6 and $7 million this weekend – in the manner of Schwarzenegger’s recent The Last Stand. Instead, Bullet to the Head took in an estimated $1.7 million from 2,404 locations on Friday, placing its three-day prospects at just $4.6 million. We’ll have full details tomorrow.
| Title | Friday | Total | |
| 1. | Warm Bodies | $8,100,000 | $8.1 |
| 2. | Hansel & Gretel | $2,923,000 | $28.1 |
| 3. | Silver Linings Playbook | $2,420,000 | $74.6 |
| 4. | Mama | $2,300,000 | $53.8 |
| 5. | Bullet to the Head | $1,735,000 | $1.7 |
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Guess I’ll be first to say I’m not surprised at this at all. I never thought I would see the day a romantic/horror/comedy would beat a solid action flick! Here comes another Shit filled franchise! When will it stop?!
It’s terrible. The world is crazy, i don’t understand the sucess this movie.